Longbridge Deverill, Wiltshire

Description
Deverill-Longbridge, a parish in Wilts." The parish lies on the Deverill rivulet, 3 miles S of Warminster town and station on the G.W.R., includes the hamlet of Crockerton, and has a post and money order office under Warminster. Acreage, 3811; population of the civil parish, 730; of the ecclesiastical, 875. The manor belonged to the Abbey of Glastonbury, took the after-part of its name from an ancient bridge supposed to have been built by the abbots, and passed 'to the Thynnes, ancestors of the Marquis of Bath. Longleat, the seat of the Marquis of Bath, is a beautiful mansion containing many fine pictures and works of art, and stands in a park of nearly 2000 acres. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £422 with residence. Patron, the Marquis of Bath. The church contains monuments of the Thynnes, and an old font, and is good. Thynne's alms-houses have £80. There are Methodist, Congregational, and Baptist chapels.